Tim Winton

Eddie Joyce (Small Mercies)

EDDIE JOYCE was born and raised on Staten Island. A graduate of Harvard University and Georgetown Law Center, he practiced law in Manhattan for ten years. When his twin daughters were born in 2009, he left the legal profession to stay home and help raise them while pursuing his dream of being a writer. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three daughters. Follow @eddiejjoyce on Twitter. (added from Random House)… (lisätietoja)

Three critically acclaimed authors discuss right and wrong, the loss of innocence and the journey to manhood in the lives of their male characters. Mark Medley will host.

Adam Foulds completed his MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and now lives in South London. Foulds is the recipient of the 2008 Costa Poetry Award for The Broken Word, and his novel The Quickening Maze was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Foulds presents In the Wolf’s Mouth, a novel set mostly in Sicily during WWII. With great lyrical intensity, it explores war and the Mafia, innocence and corruption, and history as an accumulation of the irrevocable.

Karl Ove Knausgård’s novel Out of the World was the first-ever debut to win the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. He is the author of the breathtaking My Struggle cycle, which includes six novels that can be read independently or as one hugely ambitious project. Knausgård presents the third installment of the My Struggle cycle, Boyhood Island, an autobiographical story of family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.

Mark Medley is The Globe and Mail's books editor. Before that he spent more than seven years with the National Post, where he served as an arts reporter, books editor and managed the paper's books blog, The Afterword. His work has appeared in publications across North America, including The Walrus and Toronto Life. He currently sits on PEN Canada's Board of Directors and serves on the Advisory Committee of Humber's School for Writers.

Tim Winton is the bestselling author of Cloudstreet, The Riders and Dirt Music, among many other books. He has won the Miles Franklin Award four times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Winton presents Eyrie, a thrilling and vertigo-inducing morality tale about a man struggling to accomplish good in a fallen world.

Sunday, October 26, 2014 - 12:00 PM
Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay West, Toronto M5J 2G8

Cost: $18/$15 supporters/FREE students & youth 25 and under (Jenni_Canuck)… (lisätietoja)

Writers John Boyne, Peter Robinson, Matthew Thomas and Tim Winton read from their latest works. Grace O’Connell hosts.

John Boyne is the author of nine novels for adults and four for younger readers. His novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas sold more than six million copies worldwide and was made into a Miramax feature film. His books have been published in more than 45 languages. Boyne presents his latest novel for young readers, Stay Where You Are and Then Leave, a moving and uplifting WWI story about a young boy, his father and a secret.

Grace O'Connell holds an MFA in creative writing. Her work has appeared in various publications, including The Walrus, Taddle Creek, Quill & Quire and EYE Weekly. She has taught creative writing at George Brown College and now works as a freelance writer and editor in Toronto. She is the author of the national bestseller Magnified World.

Peter Robinson is the author of the hugely successful Inspector Banks series, two short story collections and three standalone novels, the most recent of which, the bestselling Before the Poison, won the Arthur Ellis Award in Canada, Sweden's Golden Crowbar Award and the 2013 Dilys Award. Robinson's novels have been published in translation worldwide, and several Inspector Banks novels have been adapted for television. He presents the 22nd book in the DCI Banks series, Abattoir Blues, which sees Banks heading an investigation into the bizarre disappearance of two local boys.

Matthew Thomas was born in the Bronx and grew up in Queens. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he has an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where he received the Graduate Essay Award. Thomas presents his riveting debut novel, We Are Not Ourselves, which charts the story of the American Century through one Irish-American family, particularly the promise of domestic bliss and economic prosperity that captured hearts and minds after WWII.

Tim Winton is the bestselling author of Cloudstreet, The Riders and Dirt Music, among many other books. He has won the Miles Franklin Award four times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Winton presents Eyrie, a thrilling and vertigo-inducing morality tale about a man struggling to accomplish good in a fallen world.

Saturday, October 25, 2014 - 4:00 PM
Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay West, Toronto M5J 2G8

Cost: $18/$15 supporters/FREE students & youth 25 and under (Jenni_Canuck)… (lisätietoja)

Tim Winton’s breakthrough masterpiece, Cloudstreet, was voted Australia’s favourite book by ABC TV’s The Book Club last year. He has long been one of our most loved (and celebrated) authors, with four Miles Franklin Awards and two Booker Prize shortlistings.

‘His most extraordinary achievement is the degree to which he has found a language that captures the world around him, a concrete poetry both tough and tender, fresh and ancient,’ says the Guardian.

In his eleventh novel, Winton asks how, in an impossibly compromised world, we can ever hope to do the right thing.

Eyrie inhabits the skin of Tom Keely, a man whose reputation is in ruins. Divorced and unemployed, he’s lost faith in everything precious to him. Holed up in a grim highrise, cultivating his newfound isolation, Keely looks down at a society from which he’s retired hurt and angry. But in his seedy flat, ducking the neighbours, he falls into the orbit of two strangers: a woman from the past, and a boy the likes of which he’s never met before.

This will be a rare chance to hear from one of Australia’s most seductive storytellers and master craftsmen, for one night only at Melbourne Town Hall.

Tim Winton will be in conversation with Judith Lucy.

Presented by the Wheeler Centre and Readings. (rodneyvc)… (lisätietoja)

Tim Winton’s The Turning is one of Australia’s bestselling short story collections, and now, thanks to the vision and energy of Robert Connolly (director Balibo, MIFF 2009, The Bank), one of our most loved literary works is making the transition to the big screen – in a bold new project that mirrors the form of the book.

Connolly has commissioned 17 directors to adapt the 17 chapters for the screen, coming together to create an exciting whole.

The directors include actors Mia Wasikowska and David Wenham, as well as experienced directors Tony Ayres (The Slap), Justin Kurzel (Snowtown) and Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah) – and Connolly himself.

Tender and confronting, dark and fragile, these 17 overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret are set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia – territory that Winton has long claimed as his own.

In partnership with the Melbourne International Film Festival, we’re presenting an extraordinary post-premiere event, bringing the iconic Australian novelist together with Robert Connolly and a stellar line up of the directors to celebrate the film – and discuss its creation.

This is a rare opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at a watershed moment in Australian film that brings together some of our country’s brightest creative talents.

The panel will feature Tim Winton, Robert Connolly and Warwick Thornton and others, moderated by Sandy George.

Co-presented with the Melbourne International Film Festival. (rodneyvc)… (lisätietoja)

Tim Winton lukee teosta Breath.

TIM WINTON
reading & booksigning for "Breath"
Saturday, May 31 at 7:00 pm

Tim Winton is Australia’s best-loved novelist. His new work, "Breath," is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one’s limits against nature, finding like-minded souls, and discovering just how far one breath will take you. It’s a story of extremes sport and extreme emotions. “Breath is a coming-of-age novel written with Tim Winton’s customary tenderness and vivid sense of place and psychological truth.” - Colm Toibin

Tim Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, and is the preeminent Australian novelist of his generation. He has written twenty books, including the bestselling novels "Cloudstreet," "The Riders" (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), and "Dirt Music."

This Booksmith sponsored event will take place at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco). For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com If you can't attend this event and would like to order a signed copy of the author's new book, please email or phone our store. (Booksmith_in_SF)… (lisätietoja)

Tim Winton keskustelee teoksesta Breath.; Julie Myerson keskustelee teoksesta Out of Breath.

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The forces of youth can shape or break a life. So how do writers capture that fleeting and enigmatic moment between childhood and adulthood? Tim Winton has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: for The Riders(1995) and Dirt Music (2002). His eagerly awaited new novel Breath is an intimate and elemental story of lost youth recollected. Julie Myerson's latest novel Out Of Breath is the story of a young girl who encounters a cast of runaway children. The youngest is one day old, the oldest 17; but the themes that lie at the novel's heart are as adult, unsettling and universal as you'd expect from this award-winning novelist.
Join these two highly acclaimed novelists as they navigate the turbulent waters of youth. (DeadGoodBooks)… (lisätietoja)